Asperous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Asperous is an adjective meaning Rough, rugged, uneven.
Meaning
Rough, rugged, uneven.
More Meanings
- Bitter, cruel, severe.
Example Sentences
And as their valour, so you trow, defied / on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, / so many changing skies their manhood tried, / such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar; […]
[T]here needeth onely an unfolding and deplication of the inſide of this order, to ſhevv, it is not ſo aſperous and thorny as our Nature apprehendeth it by the firſt glances that light upon it.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include anfractuous, rough, irregular, asperulous, roughsome, rugged.
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